Improvement in turnstile-reglsters



Turnstile-Register.

Patented'JuIy 30,1878.

N.PETF-RS. PHOYOYLITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON, D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT P. REILLY AND VALTER P. SPELLER, OF NElV YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN TURNSTiLE-REGlSTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 206,613, dated July 30,1878; application filed June 18, 1878.

To all about it may concern:

Be it known that we, ROBERT P. REILLY and \V ALTER P. SPELLER, of NewYork city, in the county of New York and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Passenger and TurnstileRegisters; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification,and in which Figure 1 is a plan view of our improved passengerturnstile-register. Fig. 2 is a vertical section thereof. Fig. 3 is adetached sectional view of the locking mechanism for locking theturnstile, so as to prevent entrance or exit. Fi 4 is asimilar view of amodification thereof. Fig. is an enlarged detached perspective view ofthe return-movem ent-locking mechanism, showing also the arm orprojection which engages and operates the register.

Corresponding parts in the several figures are denoted by like letters.

This invention relates to certain improvements in that class ofregisters used in connection with cars or other passeuger-carryingmediums, or places of public entertainment, operated by a turnstile; andit consists in mechanism for simultaneously operating the register andlocking the operating arm or pin against a reverse movement of thestile, and of locking mechanism to prevent either entrance or exit,substantially as hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the drawing, A A may represent, one an inclosure, and the other anupright partition or post, on the other side of which may be duplicatedA, thus forming, when arranged at a depot, or other place for thearrival and departure of passengers, or at the entrance of a place ofpublic entertainment, passageways, in order that the passengers orattendants may be registered by means adapted to that end, and which isthe objectof our invention.

B is a turnstile, which may be made in any fanciful or configurateddesign consistent with its purpose. Its shaft is arranged alongside andsupported at its upper end in a surrounding ease or extension, (1, ofthe inclosure A, having the case a disposed in close proximity with thecase a, which holds, in a se curely-loeked manner, the registeringmechanism, of any of the known and common forms.

Upon the said end of the turnstile-shaft is secured a disk or plate, 0,having a series of peripherical teeth, I) b, the backs of which maycurve inwardly to the base of the perpendicular or straight portionsthereof, as seen in Fig. 5, their upper surfaces sloping toward theirfront portions, and forming shoulders or enlargements c c thereat, withwhich engages a sprin pawl or detcnt, (I, hung to the upper side of thecase a, to prevent the reverse movement of the stile after the passingof a person.

The shoulders c 0 may be arranged so closely together as to prevent theleast reverse movement of the stile or its shaft. The teeth I) I) strikethe arm or projection c of the register each turn of the stile orpassage of a person, and thus keep a record ofeaeh passing person.

To the lower end of the turnstile-shaft is attached a radially-slotteddisk or plate, f, with which engages a tooth, (1, upon a spring, 71,fastened to the floor, to its under sideeither floor in the building.

An u 'iwardly-proj ectin g and headed stud, '1, fastened to the free endof the spring or lever h, when pressed downwardly, will release thetooth g from its slotted disk or plate f, and thus unlock the turnstile,to permit of the turning of the same. The removal of pressure from theheaded upwardlyproiecting stud '1' will again lock the shaft orturnstile in place, and thus prevent the passage of an y one, either by'ay of entrance or exit.

This lever or spring 70 may be replaced by a treadle or weighted lever,and the same result be obtained.

This invention will be found especially desirable in connection withelevated railways.

Having thus fully described our invention,

we claim and desire to secure by Letters Pat- In testimony that we claimthe foregoing as ent of the United States our own We have hereuntoaffixed our signa- The combination with the support A and tures inpresence of two witnesses.

turnstile B ind 1ts shaft, ot theplate 0, pro- ROBERT D REILLY \ldedupon 1ts upper surface with shoulders T u TFP SPFT LFP c c, and aroundits periphery with projections J J J J J J or teeth I) b, spring-pawl d,and arm 0 of the Witnesses:

registerin 'mechanism, substantially as shown GERARD G. GREEN,

and described for the purpose set forth. HENRY H. NEGLES.

